Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

The donations or advocations of church livings.
Sanderson.

3. (Scots Law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

Ad"vo·ca·to·ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

Ad·voke" (?), v. t. [L. advocare. See Advocate.] To summon; to call. [Obs.]

Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome.
Fuller.

Ad`vo·lu"tion (?), n. [L. advolvere, advolutum, to roll to.] A rolling toward something. [R.]

Ad·vou"trer (?), n. [OF. avoutre, avoltre, fr. L. adulter. Cf. Adulterer.] An adulterer. [Obs.]

Ad·vou"tress (?), n. An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ad·vou"try, Ad·vow"try (?), n. [OE. avoutrie, avouterie, advoutrie, OF. avoutrie, avulterie, fr. L. adulterium. Cf. Adultery.] Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ad·vow·ee" (?), n. [OE. avowe, F. avoué, fr. L. advocatus. See Advocate, Avowee, Avoyer.] One who has an advowson. Cowell.

Ad·vow"son (?; 277), n. [OE. avoweisoun, OF. avoëson, fr. L. advocatio. Cf. Advocation.] (Eng. Law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

The benefices of the Church of England are in every case subjects of presentation. They are nearly 12,000 in number; the advowson of more than half of them belongs to private persons, and of the remainder to the crown, bishops, deans and chapters, universities, and colleges. Amer. Cyc.